The Receptionist and Other Tales

by Lesley Wheeler

Overview

"[A] stirring narrative of fantasy and derring-do, set in the ivy-clad towers and poky offices of modern academia, in which the warrior princess of an ancient line returns to the fray at last and summons ancient powers to defend the right, all told in technically assured terza rima cantos, full of ingenious rhythms. The forces of evil are all too recognizable, the bad guys satisfyingly bad and the good guys not too goody-goody. The infusion of classic children’s fantasy, and other bedtime folklore sources, is wonderful too. In the bonus package of shorter poems, “Zombie Thanksgiving” (T.S. Eliot's “The Waste Land” retold) is stunning, an absolute tour de force." Gwyneth Jones

Product Details

BN ID:	2940016059242
Publisher:	Aqueduct Press
Publication date:	01/02/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	94
File size:	576 KB

About the Author

Lesley Wheeler is the author of Heterotopia (winner of the Barrow Street Press Poetry Prize), Heathen, Voicing American Poetry, and other books. With Moira Richards, Rosemary Starace, and others she coedited the anthology Letters to the World: Poems from the Wom-Po Listserv. She maintains a blog on poetry’s possible worlds at lesleywheeler.org and is the Henry Fox Professor of English and Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia.